Sentences with phrase «in protests against»

At the time, they were occupying parts of Bangkok in protests against the government led by Abhisit Vejjajiva.

In recent years, Hansen turned to climate activism, participating in protests against coal plants and being arrested on several occasions, including at a Keystone XL pipeline protest in 2011 at the White House.

In North America and many parts of Europe, the debate on what role humans should play in ending animal suffering has taken shape in protests against slaughter houses, factory farming and animal testing.

Other students got involved in the protests against the Keystone XL pipeline.

The siblings are strongly opposed to the hike in university tuition fees, and spearheaded a scheme where a group of artists, actors and designers would pay legal costs for students caught up in protests against the rise.

Did you take part in the protests against it?

Tensions surfaced last September in protests against the Contemporary Art Museum here around a show of work by a white artist, Kelley Walker, that included images of black bodies smeared with chocolate and rainbow - colored toothpaste.

The term «puppy mill» has been widely used by animal rights groups in protests against breeders who have substandard breeding conditions.

The 72 - year - old has also been arrested five times in protests against the continued burning of fossil fuels or to demand that the United States put a price on carbon emissions.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

Students at several universities are continuing sit - in protests against the plans.

Eleven - year - old Michael Jacques, left, and 8 - year - old Katelyn Jacques, right, of Waterford participate in the protests against the common core test contracts outside of the NYS Education Department on Monday evening, August 11, 2014, in Albany N.Y. (Selby Smith / Special to the Times Union)

Mr Williams said he had considered speaking out more openly during the early stages of the war, but had asked himself whether playing a prominent part in protests against it «might be effective or that just becomes words, that just becomes noise».

«We are showing our solidarity with all the people throughout the world who are taking part in protests against president - elect Trump,» Siritunga Jayasuriya, leader of the United Socialist Party, said.

The call saw Zimbabweans of all political and racial backgrounds throng the streets of the country's three major cities in protests against Mugabe's rule.

Sir William was not a member of the club but said he joined its members in protests against trade unions.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. today announced that he backs same - sex marriage rights as his father, state Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., is in Washington to take part in protests against marriage rights for gay couples.

Groups such as Boston - based Corporate Accountability International, a non-profit which originated in the protests against Nestle's infant formula, have alleged for almost a decade that bottled water makers damage the environment when they extract the water, waste resources on bottles and shipping, and take what should be a common good.

Yeah but even if you do intend on selling the player you have to sound strong in protests against the idea.

The Bishop participated in the protests against the American policy in Vietnam.

Like many of their contemporaries, they became wildly optimistic about secularization in the early 1960s, and then in the early 1970s deeply involved in protests against the Vietnam War and in fighting for various social causes.

Buddhist monks, for example, are now engaging in protests against social injustice.

This can be observed in the struggle to defend public school salaries, in forms of nonmonetary trading of goods and services, in incipient micro-banks oriented especially toward financing projects designed and carried out by women, or in protests against corruption in the public sphere.

Several countries in the region have been swept up in protests against longtime rulers since the January revolt that ousted Tunisian strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

I'm surprised she concludes this way, because the early chapters of her book poke fun at her family and church's frequent involvement in protests against abortion and homosexuality.

They explained to me that they had been up late at night, participating in protests against the government.

Activists will march from Hyde Park Corner to Parliament Square on September 9 in protest against last year's Brexit vote.

In January, women across the world came out in droves to march in protest against President Donald Trump.

Irish women will mark the day with a strike in protest against the eighth amendment of the Irish Constitution, which bans abortion.

In 1993, around 100 Case Farms employees refused to work in protest against low pay, lack of bathroom breaks and payroll deductions for aprons and gloves.

A symbolic, non-violent violation of the law, done deliberately in protest against some form of perceived injustice.

LONDON AXA Investment Managers will vote in protest against companies which do not explain how they will boost the number of women on their boards, joining growing demands for workplace diversity.

In protest against such callous parental neglect, the girl goes straight for the symbolic source of her abandonment, secretly draining the family liquor bottles.

The people complaining today about being demonized did not, as far as I know, raise their voices in protest against the demonization of others by members of their own community.

It must be remembered however that African - American denominations are not «protestant» in the sense of having been born in protest to alleged Catholic abuses; instead, African - American denominations are protestant in the very different sense of having been born in protest against oppression by Euro - American protestant denominations.

Exiled Tibetan Buddhist monks pray as they mourn those who died in protest against Chinese rule on November 08, 2012.

Again in I Corinthians 4:20 in a protest against too much arrogant talk we find Paul saying, «For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.»

On August 26, before a preseason game against the Green Bay Packers, the 49er's quarterback sat down during the national anthem in protest against racial injustices in America.

At the other, in protest against the self - righteous «perfectionism» thus implied, is the current neo-orthodox tendency to stress the continuance of sin in the most saintly Christians, with reluctance to grant any significant moral achievement as the result of redemption lest it savor of human presumption.

That Thoreau was a humbug who is only kept in print by his capacity to capture the passing fancies of impressionable adolescents is neither here nor there to the editors of the Times, who apparently feel entitled to indulge their own impulse to throw an adolescent snit in protest against a nation that appreciates them insufficiently.

In a concluding peroration, Miss Faludi raises the question: «Why don't contemporary men rise up in protest against their betrayal?»

Albert Schweitzer consistently refused political involvements and judgments, though he did join in protest against the use of nuclear weapons.

I'm not over 10,000 children losing their sponsorships in a protest against gay marriage.

He wanted to participate fully in the national struggle as a dedicated son of the German soil in protesting against Hitler's policies and oppression.

But we can not read them correctly unless we see them in protest against perversions of the covenant, endeavoring to call Israel not only forward but back to what was deepest in her history.

It's been over a year since the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot appealed to the virgin Mary in protest against Putin before the congregation in a key Orthodox Cathedral in Moscow, Russia.

Partly in protest against this lack of conformity of the rank and file of Christians to the teachings of Jesus came what proved to be one of the most persistent channels for the transmission of the influence of Jesus, monasticism.

According to Davison Budhoo, an economist who had worked with both the World Bank and the IMP before he quit the latter in protest against its policies, on the basis of the figures released by UNICEF, it is estimated that those policies led directly to the death of 70 million children under 5 years in the Third World between the years 1982 - 1990 and indirectly to the destitution and impoverishment of several hundred millions more 8.

On August 26, before a preseason game against the Green Bay Packers, the 49ers» quarterback sat down during the national anthem in protest against racial injustices in America.

Art and faith converge in a protest against the elevation of linearity as the final word about reality.